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| Advanced Emphysema |
Question:
Just wondering if when I will see the benefits of quitting smoking, which I
did 4 weeks ago? As a side note I have just recently been diagnosed with advanced emphysema?
Answer:
If you smoke and stop, the average person will regain about 60 cubic
centimeters of lung function per year for up to two years, then they go back
to losing lung function but at the same rate as a non-smoker.
There are people here
like me who quit because they were diagnosed with early emphysema, there are
people who have advanced emphysema, there are people who did not have
emphysema when they quit but have since developed it. The average person
regains some lung capacity, mine continued to decline, but that's how
averages work - some regain more, some less, some lose. How much yu smoked
and for how long determines how much damage you have done to your lungs, but
they'll never go back to what they would have been like had you never
smoked.
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